Arranged marriage

A recent survey released on April 1 by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) has shown that 56.8 percent of first marriages across the country in 2021 were arranged marriages, with individuals or their family's decisions.

Around 46.1 percent of arranged marriages happened with the decision of an individual, according to the "Turkish Family Structure Survey."

A recent survey released on April 1 by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) has shown that 56.8 percent of first marriages across the country in 2021 were arranged marriages, with individuals or their family's decisions.

Around 46.1 percent of arranged marriages happened with the decision of an individual, according to the "Turkish Family Structure Survey."

A total of 41 girls will return to education thanks to a hotline set up in 2015 to prevent child marriages in the southeastern province of Gaziantep, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Jan. 2.

After announcing one of the biggest social scandals in Turkey, Ichlan Ergiz does not want to get close to his former job - a state hospital on the outskirts of Istanbul.

Idzhlan export data from the hospital that in the maternity ward last year there were hundreds of underage girls, writes "Deutsche Welle"

Some 28.2 percent of women who got married in 2016 in Turkey were underage, while the ratio of men in the same category was 5.6 percent, according to figures released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) under the Family Structure Research category.

The head of the gender equality commission at the Turkish Parliament has called for trial without arrest for men accused of marrying children. 

Radiye Sezer Katırcıoğlu, a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lawmaker from the northwestern province of Kocaeli, said at the commission that current measures meant child brides become victimized twice:

Child brides in Turkey are often raped, beaten and forced to undergo virginity tests, according to Eylem Atakav, the director of a new documentary which aims to break the silence on the taboo issue. 

"Growing Up Married," due to premiere in London on Oct. 30, examines the impact of child marriage on four women who were forced to marry at a young age in western Turkey. 

The number of girls who were wed before the age of 18 since 2010 is higher than 200,000, Turkey's Family and Social Planning Ministry has said in response to a parliamentary inquiry by the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP). 

In an attempt to shine a harsh light on child marriages which are legal in many countries around the world, YouTuber Coby Persin conducted a social experiment to see how people in New York would react to the sight of a child bride and her older groom.

One third of marriages in Turkey involve underage girls, according to a women's rights lawyer speaking at a conference that was called to tackle the problem.

"There are 181,036 child brides in our country, unfortunately," ?zmir Bar Association Central Executive Board Member and women's rights advocate Nuriye Kadan said during the conference in ?zmir on Dec. 6.